April 14th, 2008 DJ
We love Okami! In honor of The Best Game You’ve Never Played, we sent out thank you cards - handmade from recycled fibers and embedded with seeds - to the fans who preordered the game in the Capcom Store. When planted, savory and tasty sage plants will spring forth! An exclusive Okami postage stamp featuring Amaterasu was included on the envelope and inside the card was a coupon code for free shipping on a future purchase.
Are you sorry now that you didn’t pre-order this beautiful game? Well here’s your chance to get a little love from the Capcom Store. For one week, that’s April 15th through April 21st, we are offering the following coupon code: OKAMIWII08. Use it to purchase Okami for the Wii and get free economy shipping on your entire order. Yes! Your entire order. This is your opportunity to pick up a great game AND some of the other cool items you’ve been eyeing. The only requirement is that you purchase Okami for the Wii and use the coupon code. The coupon is only good for one use per customer but feel free to share it with as many people as you want. Okay! Stop reading this and click here to buy the game already. Sheesh! What are you waiting for?
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April 11th, 2008 Chris Tou
Recently, right on our very own forums, fans repeatedly expressed some displeasure at the caliber of third party games coming out on the Nintendo Wii. One of the many points often heard is that the Wii is often on the receiving end of many ports, particular PS2 ports. However, one exception to this complaint has been the upcoming Okami for the Wii. As Wii Fanboy puts it, Okami is “the perfect example of how porting games can be a force for good”.
To that end, they interviewed Didier Malenfant, president and co-founder of Ready At Dawn, the folks responsible for the awesome port of Okami. They asked him to dish on such things as his side of the “how Okami came to be” story, why you should play the Wii version of Okami even if you have played the PS2 version previously, and how they dealt with the pressure of porting an award winning and critically acclaimed game.
What helped the most was the fact that we were all huge fans of the game ourselves to begin with. You don’t take a game as beautiful as Okami and think that you can mess with it, try to add content that doesn’t belong there or something. We have so much respect for the original game that we decided from the get-go that this was going to be a labor of love. The goal was to reproduce the experience as closely as possible. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it basically.
Check Wii Fanboy to read the entire interview.
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April 3rd, 2008 Seth Killian
The Bionic Commando podcasting team returns:
Top Secret File 012: Christian Svensson, VP of Strategic Planning & Business Development, Capcom USA
Christian Svensson joins us from across the Pacific to talk about the rebirth of Okami on the Wii, as well as the challenges of bringing Japanese games to the West, and the future of Capcom. Christian also talks about Capcom’s other downloadable titles, including Super Street Fighter II HD Remix!
And in case you’re wondering, yes, we have switched our blog format over to the increasingly popular “All Svensson, All the Time!” format. Featuring Svensson updates at 15, 20, and 40 past the hour, we are your #1 source for the most in-depth Svensson reportage you’ll find this side of the Mississippi.
We’ll stop talking to him when he runs out of interesting things to say. So far, no luck, so click here to hear him dish.
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April 2nd, 2008 Colin
Sometimes my job is really fun, as is the case today. In working towards the release of Okami, we have been providing our partners with some amazing pieces of Okami art in order to put together beautiful articles about the game. Just take a look at the latest EGM or Play (with POSTER!) to see what I’m talking about. In fact, we’ve given them so much art, they’ve never used it all. Ten DVDs full of art go a long way, let me tell you.
To celebrate the launch of Okami on the Wii, we wanted to find a special way to thank all the vocal Okami fans that encouraged us to take a second shot at success with this title. We looked at special tiny art books for preorder, but the format didn’t do the art justice and we wanted to reward the fans of the PS2 version as well.
So, without further adu, I’d like to present http://www.okamiart.com. This is a collection of almost every piece of Okami art we’ve made, set up in beautiful gallery form for your downloadable pleasure. Working with our friends at Udon, there’ s also a beatiful large art book you can order from the site.
Featuring original art, character art, backgrounds, desktop downloads, chat icons, and even a user fan art section, http://www.okamiart.com is everything you ever wanted to see of our favorite goddess turned wolf.
Also, in the coming weeks, we’ll be having some fan art competitions both on http://www.okamiart.com and our friends over at DeviantArt.com. With some amazing prizes, you should get drawing today and submit them to our expert panel of judges for both internet fame and some exclusive Okami items.
Thank you again for all your support and remember to buy Okami for the Wii on April 15th!
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March 27th, 2008 Seth Killian
Cheerleading and gentle cajoling doesn’t seem to have worked, so now the world’s enamored press has turned to open abuse of you, the “not-buying-Okami-for-some-impossibly-dumb-reason” public! As author Tyler Nagata explains, “This isn’t tough love, it’s a friggin’ INTERVENTION. Don’t miss this game.”
Actually, while it sounds like this GamesRadar piece is yelling at you with their “5 Reasons You Suck if you Don’t Play Okami,” they actually just end up sort of swooning about the many awesome things about Okami, ending on this important note:
The best reason why you should pick up Okami is that games like Okami can’t exist without you. If we don’t support games that break away from the beaten path and succeed, we’ll have nothing but more sequels and recycled games based on past financial successes. Yes, we want to play Gears of War 2, StarCraft II and GTA IV. But without surprises like Okami to mix things up every once in a while, the world of gaming will become as predicable and dull as the next Dynasty Warriors.
Click here to read more reasons you suck.
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March 24th, 2008 Chris "Kramez" Kramer
Yes, the title of this post is a reference to a Goo Goo Dolls song, back from when they used to be good (like, almost Replacements good. Almost) and before they became your mom’s favorite band. Ha! Your mom likes the Goo Goo Dolls!
Focus, Kramer, focus! IGN talks with everybody’s favorite forum lurker (and Capcom VP) Christian Svensson, who talks about Okami’s long hard road out of development hell. It’s a lengthy piece (like Sven’s forum posts, Zing!), but an interesting read. Get at it already!
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March 21st, 2008 Chris "Kramez" Kramer
Every day, I walk by Kubozono-san’s cubicle, and every day, I find myself stopping to watch him play Okami on the Wii for a few minutes. And every day, I think to myself, “Man, I’m going to play this game over again!” 480p Okami, 16×9 widescreen, plus Wii wiggle-waggle controls? A thing of beauty, really, and absolutely the way this game was meant to be played. Just as Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition impressed the pants offa everyone who played (for the third time through, for some folks), I think that Okami is really going to knock socks off all comers. Nintendo of America has just officially approved Okami, so we’ll be shipping it out to stores in North America soon in order to hit the April 15 release date. Now you know where your tax return/”economic stimulus package” dollars are going to go!
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February 14th, 2008 Chris Tou
Today we bring you the first in a series of interviews with Daryl Allison, Sr. Producer here at Capcom, who will be giving us a sneak peek into the upcoming Okami for the Nintendo Wii. Best of all, he will be fielding user questions! If you have burning Okami Wii question, ask us in the comments. If Daryl answers your question, you may win a special prize!
First of all, can you tell our readers who you are and what you do here at Capcom? What is your role on the Okami Wii team?
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February 5th, 2008 Seth Killian
Computer and Videogames dot com talks some trash with a point-by-point breakdown of the strength of each game. Find out their reasons for handing the crown to our favorite wolf here.
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January 9th, 2008 Seth Killian
Since we don’t post eeeeelegal magazine scans and the Famitsu featuring the exciting new SFIV character hasn’t actually come out yet, it’s time instead for an exciting installment of [echoing announcer voice on] “Random Stuff Lying Around the Office,” where we bring you up-close and personal with the promotional trinkets that light our days and fill our nights. This episode is brought to you courtesy of Chris’s mighty phone cam.
First up is a sweet new Devil May Cry 4 art book. It’s hardbound and full of goodness showing how the world of DMC4 goes from concept art to fully-rendered models. Here’s a scan of the cover, as well as a couple of sample pages here and here for you to drool over.
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